A drop in the bucket for the search behemoth
Google today settled the class action lawsuit it earned when it launched Google Buzz without any privacy controls. Google Buzz is a social networking tool similar to Twitter that allows users to share information with their connections. In order to jumpstart users' social graph, Buzz users were automatically, and publicly, linked to people they often Gmail-ed with. That made for some embarrassing connections. Google (GOOG) settled for $8.5 million, most of which will go to fund organizations focused on Internet privacy education and policy. The rest will likely cover court costs, legal fees and overhead.
Read More:http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/11/02/buzzkill-google-settles-google-buzz-privacy-suit-for-8million-donatio
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